The California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to decide Thursday whether SDG&E can charge ratepayers $379 million to recover costs from the 2007 wildfires.

The utility paid more than $2 billion in settlements stemming from the fires, which state regulators determined were caused in part by SDG&E power lines. SDG&E has contested those findings.

Insurers paid out more than $1 billion, but SDG&E was left with $379 million in unrecovered costs. In August, two administrative law judges recommended the commission reject the request, finding SDG&E's management and control of its equipment was "unreasonable."

The commission was supposed to make its decision last month, but delayed the hearing a second time in order to gather more public comment.

The San Diego Union-Tribune energy reporter Rob Nikolewski joins KPBS Midday Edition on Friday with more on SDG&E's bid and how the utility could react if it is denied.